Q.1. Founded in 1945, Deccan Airways was a joint venture between the Tatas and who?

Ans. Nizam

Q.2. Julian Koenig is known for naming Earth Day and coming up with Timex’s tagline “It takes a licking and keeps on ticking”. In what way did he help a famous German brand counter certain products in US catering to growing families?

Ans. Volkswagen, Think Small Campaign

Q.3. Connect

Ans. Bata (The Northern Star is a brand by Bata)

Q.4. This is Luigi, the character from the movie Carz, modelled after a 1959 Fiat. Also shown in the picture is a license plate with a particular number. What is the significance of this license plate to the real world?

Ans. Latitude and Longitude of the Plant where the cars where manufactured in Italy

Q.5. This is the grave of Yang Tai Chow. Tong Achu was a migrant to India. He set up a sugar mill on Government land in East India. What is the etymological reference?

Ans. He was the first person to set up sugar mill in India. Hence, sugar in Hindi is called Chini

Q.6. Connect

Ans. MRF (Hasbro has a tie up, painting by the founder, Glen Mcgrath heads the Pace Foundation, Monsoon Rain Day Campaign features the Taj Mahal Palace)

Q.7. Connect.

Ans. United Airlines

Q.8. The first of its kind in Aisa, was established around 25 years back, is situated at the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital in Mumbai.

It was established by Armida Fernandez, a retired professor,with initial funding from the Taj Group of Hotels. What are these?

Ans. Human Milk Banks

Q.9. What is the significance of this currency in India? These are coins which were unearthed in India. Where did they come from?

Ans. Ram Rahim’s Dera Sacha Sauda

Q.10. Connect

Ans. Fuji Mountain

Q.11. Titarpur, near Delhi is one of India’s largest markets for a certain kind of ‘products’. They produce over 2,000 of these with prices ranging from R.750 to Rs. 10,000. What products, produced typically for the months of September/October/ November each year?

Ans. Effigies of Ravana

Q.12. This is used to test the purity of gold or silver. This gives rise to which word meaning a standard or a criterion by which geniuneness is measured?

Ans. Touchstone

Q.13. This was introduced by Monopoly in 2017 in India. Why?

Ans. Demonetization in India

Q.14. Connect

Ans. Khadi

Q.15. What is this?

Ans. Bottled water from Bhopal, as a tribute to Bhopal Gas Tragedy

Q.16. Connect

Ans. People who have featured on the logo

Q.17. This is a famous Indian, an MIT graduate. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee wanted him to be free from his assignment as a minister in West Bengal for which special purpose?

Ans. Dr. Asim Dasgupta, First head of GST Council

Q.18. Born in 1983, out of scripts that were sent by Sameer Salman from Trichy, Tamilnadu and contributed to work of an artist called Ram Waeerkar. This person has had roles to play with Tata Mutual Fund. Who?

Ans. Suppandi

Q.19. This brand was launche din 1968, based on a recommendation by a team from IIM. It was originally given the brand name “Kamaraj”, but since K Kamaraj was then the President of the Indian National Congress, this name was changed very quickly.

Today sales of this brand, stand at a handsome 800 million units per year. Name this brand.

Ans. Nirodh

Q.20. What is common among these three books- The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis, Misbehaving by Richard H Thater, Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman?

Ans. Behaviourial Economics

Q.21. In 1979, a unique petition was submitted to Prime Minister Morarji Desai and the Government of India, individually and collectively signed by over 65,000 workers.

This petition pointed out that any disruption in the present system of working would lead to considerable discontentment amongst workers, leading to loss of production for the country, which was not conducive to anyone.

What was this petition about?

Ans. Privatisation of Tata Steel plant

Q.22. This is the venture capital arm of?

Ans. CIA

Bonus Question:

Q.23. Why was the invasion by CIA near Cuba called Project Pork?

Ans. Bay of Pigs, Cuba

Q.24. This is a specific machine designed to construct what?

Ans. Toblerone

Q.25. Who is the first Indian to have won the prestigious NSS Von Braun Memorial Award?

Q.1. Which furnishing giant has headquarter in Netherlands and had Tornjorn Loof as its CEO ?

Ans. IKEA

Q.2. In Yekatarinburg, Russia there is a monument to Edward Balami the sci-fi writer, the monument is 2:1 in size and it was predicted as future innovation by Edward in year 1988. Which innovation is this that he predicted?

Ans. Credit card

Q.3. The promoter of this watch brand also owns brand called HRX.

Ans. Rado

Q.4. Which Indian group owns brands like Planet M, Next etc?

Ans. Videocon

Q.5. What was developed for Kroger to remove coal stains but now its used more by kids?

Ans. Play-Doh

Q.6. Pratap C Reddy started which chain of hospitals from Chennai?

Ans. Apollo Hospitals

Q.7. DEIVEE is an brand owned by which Indian supermodel?

Ans. Milind Soman

Q.8. Roy Farelll started which airline based out of Australia?

Ans. Cathay Pacific

Q.9. This restaurant started in South Africa by Fernando Duarte, specializes in chicken dishes and is now spread world. Name this restaurant which is known for use of a special African spice.

Ans. Nando’s

Q.10. Identify the logo.

Ans. Wella

Q.11. Bertie Charles started which famous business magazine?

Ans. Forbes

Q.12. Mario and Martina started a brand of shoe for women, that later diversified. They never wanted a woman to run this company but they handed over it to their daughter eventually. Which company?

Ans. Prada

Q.13. John Hendricks started which cable network that now owns brands like Oprah Winfrey Network, TLC and other channels?

Ans. Discovery Networks

Q.14. Billion Beats, a magazine with only positive news was started by which Bharat Ratna awardee?

Ans. APJ Abdul Kalam

Q.15. Which university in Oakbrook, Chicago has its graduates in more than 190 countires?

Ans. McDonald’s Hamburger university

Q.16. Mike Lazardis started which company that was a pioneer in Internet of things?

Ans. Research In Motion/Blackberry

Q.17. Shepton Dash, Gambit are all mascot of which paint brand?

Ans. Dulux

Q.18. Josephy Cyrell designed which logo that is inclined at 18 degree?

Q.2. BODVOD is the network content provider for South-Asian community. How do we know BODVOD?

Ans. SAAVN

Q.3. QKR, Paypass are the contact less payment methods from which credit-card franchisee?

Ans. Mastercard

Q.4. MICA was founded by this gentleman in 1991. He is an Indian Advertising Icon and passed away a couple of years back. Who is this Indian Icon?

Ans. AG Krishnamurthy

Q.5. This American Defence/Advertising/Tech company started off as “Special Yarns Company” and is now having an appropriate name to indicate the fact that it had some relevance with textile. Which company is this?

Ans. Textron

Q.6. Lalji Gala is associated with a publishing house that is a common name among school kids. Which publishing house is this?

Ans. Navneet

Q.7. What is D in FIDO?

Ans. Defects

Q.8. “Alive is offline” is a campaign from which soap brand that had Vinod Khanna and Imran Khan as its Brand Ambassdors?

Ans. Cinthol

Q.9. Question on Titan

Q.10. Suchi Mukherjee, started as Indian E-Commerce site while she was on her maternity leave. Which E-Commerce site is this?

Ans. Limeroad

Q.11. Identify.

Ans. Vauxhall

Q.12. Identify the beer brand

Ans. Budweiser

Q.13. Which man came up with “The Worlds of Power”. The man was formerly involved with Yahoo.

Ans. Seth Godin

Q.14. What company was started off as a Balloon Manufacturing firm and is now one of the prominent suppliers to Automobile Industry?

Ans. MRF

Q.15. Which Insurance company has a Mirror, A Serpant and an arrow in its logo?

Ans. Prudential

Q.16. Which Indian Conglomerate has an in-house magazine called “Namaste”?

Ans. ITC

Q.17. Identify the author of “My Years with GM”.

Ans. Alfred Sloan

Q.18. Which Media Moghul started off his career with Southdown Press Publishing?

Q.12. ID&T is a Dutch entertainment enterprise. It organises an event, the largest of its kind, at 3 locations in Brazil, Belgium and US. Which famous event is this?

Ans. Tomorrowland

Q.13. Which company’s logo is Otosan?

Ans. SoftBank

Q.14. Which agency was behind the’Labour isn’t working’ campaign in the 1979 elections of UK?

Ans. Saatchi & Saatchi

Q.15. Which international airline has launched an airline called JOON?

Ans. Air France

Q.16. Connect question on Apple

Q.17. Which Tata company is betting big on Internet of Things usage across the country by rolling out their long range, low power networks to support devices across Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Jamshedpur?

Ans. Tata Communications

Q.18. What in the world of automobiles was founded by them?

Ans. BMW

Q.19. Identify the logo?

Ans. Acrobat Reader

Q.20. What network company was incorporated as the Jari Corporation in in 1949?

Q.1. Barbeque Nation had this theme festival in 2014 wherein it wanted the customers to explore and experience about what it called “ India’s oldest party Highway”- where diners could start with Chapti Kebab, move on to Sheer Kurma, Khoya Khubani Kebab and finish with Kasundi Chingri(prawn). What was the theme all about?

Ans. Grand Trunk Road Delicacies served in Dhabas

Q.2. These six human values have been adopted by which human oriented company?

Ans. Being Human

Q.3. “Some former colleagues were making a pilot of a show called Safecracker , which featured Sagarika Ghose, then a student at St. Stephen’s. They knew me from my brief stint as an event manager at the Taj, so they called me to Kamani Auditorium down the road at 10 Minutes’ notice to do a quick rah-rah intro of the show, host and contenstants..” Soon after this , this person’s life changed and he joined DD. Who was this former Tata employee?

Ans. Siddarth Basu

Q4. Connect.

Ans. Xerox

Q.5. Which company has launched Fast.com—a tool to help customers monitor their download speeds anywhere in the world?

Ans. Netflix

Q.6. The website says,” Some think that this name is the product of founder’s mind. Others are of the view that it came from a book of ancient myths. Of such books, one that is very famous is the “ Masnavi Gulzar-e- Nasam”.

In this book, there is a character who has the daughter of Muzaffer shah, the king of Firdaus(Heaven). Name the character/ product.

Ans. Rooh-a- Afza

Q.7. Old logo of which company?

Ans. Swarovski

Q.8. This is place designed to encourage the employees of large organization to come up with original ideas. The name is taken from the moonshine factory in a famous Al Capp cartoon series called” Li’l Abner”. This name is a registered trademark of Lockheed Martin Corp. What’s this?

Ans. Skunk Work

Q.9. Which Tata enterprise is associated with MAHLE company which is into cooling business?

Ans. Tata Motors

Q.10. Identify whose foundation.

Ans. Paul Walker Foundation

Q.11. In 1882 American express started its expansion in the area of financial services by launching which service to compete with the United States Post Office?

Ans. Money Orders

Q.12. Identify the company.

Ans. Suzlon

Q.13. Connect all these to a person.

Ans. Oprah Winfery

Q.14. On completing 25 years, this Indian company has unveiled a new corporate identity by changing its name and introducing a new logo. The new logo has taken the inspiration from the tiny twinkle that the company wants to bring to people’s eyes by providing elevated experiences. Identify the company.

Ans. Titan

Q.15. What’s the particular term/ name used for this five pound note?

Ans. Quid

Q.16. Which company is behind this?

Ans. Bacardi

Q.17. Which entity is called as Gray Lady and why?

Ans. New York Times. It has won maximum no of Pulitzer Trophies.

Q.18. Which automobile brand advertised with the given line,” The thrill starts with the grill” ?

(Lord Chelmsford christened the steel city Jamshedpur, in memory of Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, and renamed Kalimati railway station as Tatanagar.)

Q.2. Identify

Ans. Sajjan Jindal

Q.3. Which Fashion giant has started “By Appointment” Made-to-Measure Service where celebrities design the cloth?

Armani / Calvin Klein / Pierre Cardin

Ans. Calvin Klein

Q.4. S. Anantharamakrishnan founder of Simpsons & Co. established X, an auto ancilliary unit. Hint : A cricket team is named after X

Ans. India Piston

Q.5. Who owns Blaze Pizza’s?

Ans. LeBron James

Q.6. Which Fictional Restaurant chain is inspired from this real-life eatery?

Ans. Los Pollos Hermanos ( from Breaking Bad)

Q.7.John Mackey and Renee Hardy Laswon’s SaferWay store, founded in 1978, and Craig Weller and Mark Skiles’ Clarksville Natural Grocery, both in Austin, Texas. On September 20, 1980, these stores merged to open the first X Stores. Recently acquired by Amazon.

Ans. Whole Foods

Q.8. X created the modern office chair was naturalistand put wheels on the chair in his study so he could get to his specimens more quickly. Hint : A great Scientist / Evolution

Ans. Charles Darwin

Q.9. Book about which Investment Banker?

Ans. Lazard Frères & Co

Q.10. If you are having a meat called “Australus”, which animal’s meat you are having?

Ans. Kangaroo

Q.11. Name the internet giant originally titled Phoenix, which carried the implication of the mythical firebird that rose triumphantly from the ashes of its dead predecessor.

Ans. Mozilla

Q.12. First vending machine was invented byHero of Alexandria, what did it dispense?

Ans. Holy Water

Q.13. House Wives earning money working from home using internet. What are they called?

Ans. Mouse Wives

Q.14. Which MNC Giant made these ear-rings ?

Ans. Believe it or Not, its Coca-Cola

Q.15. Advertisement by?

Ans. Brunswick

Q.16. Who is the man behind this brand of tequila?

Ans. George Clooney

Q.17. This award pertains to which industry. (Fi-Fi Award)

Ans. Fragrance Industry

Q.18. X was born to Frank and Isobel. He is a big name in the world of Science. Who?

Ans. Stephen Hawking

Q.19. X brand meaning translates into “Go hang yourself” is Spanish. Which brand is this? We use it every morning.

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